Detachable light for vehicle-curtains.



A. LOOMIS.

DETAGHABLE LIGHT FOB. VEHICLE CURTAINS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8, 1909.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

Human STATES Parser orrrpn. ALLEN menus, or DETROIT, ircH GAn, ASSIGNOB TO PAcKAii-n Moron can COMPANY, or. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION '0F M ICHIGA1\-T.

DETACHABLE, LIGHT FOR VEHI LE-CURTAINS Application filed November 8, 190B.

. b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN LooMIs, a citizen 0f the United States, and resident of Detroit,""county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable Lights for Vehicle-Curtains, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtains for vehicles, and especially to those used in connection with motor vehicles.

. It is desirable at times to roll up the vehicle curtains and move them out of the way, this being generally accomplished by rolling them up and securing them in position underneath the roof of the vehicle.

, Since these curtains are generally provided with lights, it is desirable that the latter may be detachably secured to the curtain body, so that they may be removed when the curtain is rolled up, or readilyreplaced when broken or scratched.

The object of this invention, therefore, is

to construct a curtain in which the light may be quickly removed and again secured in place.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a view of a oo Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a View of the reversed side of the curtainfrom that shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a curtain body provided with an opening 11.

Y A plurality of strips 12 and 13 are secured to the curtain body by means of rows of stitches 14, forming together a pocket. A plurality of snap fastener sockets 15 are secured to the curtain body, and extendthrough the strip, 12. The strip 13 has secured-thereto a plurality of heads 16, which cooperate with the sockets15. 'lhe rows of stitches 14 extend through both of the strips 12 and 13 to points designated 17, 17 on Fig. 5. This construction leaves the righthand end 18 of'the upper str1 p-free, so as to form a swinging flap. A suitable l ght 19,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 119, 1915.

Serial No. 525,831.

provided with a number .of holes 20, is adapted to be placed in the pocket formed bythe strips 12 and 13,,the holes 20 alining with the snap fasteners. The light 19 is preferably flexible, and may becomposed of celluloid, or any other flexible transparent material. I

The light is securedin place by separating, all of the coiiperating heads 16 and sockets 15, and inserting it in place in the pocket forms by the strips 12 and 13, by separating the flap 18 from the body'of the curtain, as shown in Fig. 3. After the light is in place the heads 16 are all snapped into locking engagement with the cooperating sockets 15, and thelight will thus be securely held in place. Whenever it is desirable to roll up the curtain or replace a broken orscratched light thelight is removed by disengaging the heads 16 from the pocket through the open end formed by ieparating the flap '18 from the body memer. c

It is obvious that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from this invention, and it is, therefore, to be understood that this invention is not to be limited to the specific con struction shown and'described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is y l. The combination with a vehicle curtain provided-with an opening and a light therefor, of a flexible strip around the opening secured to the curtain and forming with the curtain a pocket adapted to receive said light, a part of said strip being free from the curtain to permit the light to be inserted into and removed from the pocket, and snap fasteners comprising cooperating parts secured respectively to the curtain and said 'StI'lDyfOI' connecting the free portions of the strip with the curtain to secure the light in the pocket.

2. The combination ith a vehicle curtain provided with an opening and'a light there sockets 15, and removing the light from the for having marginal openings therein, of a pocket eda'hted to receive said light, a hurt free portions of thestrip with the curtain th of said strip being free from the eurtain to secure the light'in the pocket. 10 permit the light to be inserted into and re- In testlmon whereof I aihx my slgnature moved from the pocket, and snap fasteners m p n 0 tW0 wltnessescomprising coiipe rating parts secured re- ALLEN LOOMIS. spectively to the curtain and said strip, some Witnesses: of szud. parts extending through the mar i- ERNEST H. KING,

nal openings in the light and connecting t1e I N. HEARN. 

